From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 7:55:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E5F37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:55:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (fepout3.telus.net [199.185.220.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0598643E6A for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tcooper1@telusplanet.net) Received: from donatev49iknkl ([205.206.105.251]) by priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with SMTP id <20021021145526.FTSF18256.priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net@donatev49iknkl> for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:55:26 -0600 Message-ID: <001801c2791a$df4273e0$fb69cecd@donatev49iknkl> From: "Terry Cooper" To: Subject: floppy device busy Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:59:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was trying to create a bootable floppy from using a script I found from http://www.svbug.com/developer/documentation/handbook/handbook139.html and well it failed. Big newbie surprize. grrrrrrrrrr. Well now I get this error after I modified the script. fdformat: /dev/fd0: Device busy Bad floppy, please use a newone I rebooted my computer to fix it but there must be a simple command to fix this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message